Search Results: Authors starting with J from Bloomsbury Books

Oradell, NJ: American Tract Society. Offered is a lot of seven Christian tracts written by J. Allen Blair, D.D. entitled "Our Wonderful Saviour" published by the American Tract Society out of Oradell, New Jersey. No date, although 1960s or 1970s (the tracts show a five-digit zip code). Each measures 3-7/16" by 5-3/4" and contains four pages including front and rear covers. Pastor Blair begins his discussion by writing, "Nearly two thousand years ago a Baby was born in the city of Bethlehem. This Baby was the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who left the glories of Heaven to assume a body of flesh." . Fine. Wraps. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1970.

Oradell, NJ: American Tract Society. Offered is a lot of four Christian tracts written by J. Allen Blair, D.D. entitled "What are you doing SUNDAY?" published by the American Tract Society out of Oradell, New Jersey. No date, although 1960s or 1970s (the tracts show a five-digit zip code). Each measures 3-1/2" by 5-3/4" and contains four pages including front and rear covers. Pastor Blair begins his discussion by writing, "'What are you doing Sunday?' How frequently we hear this question. The answers are many: golfing, fishing, hunting, working, painting the house, visiting relatives. Every once in a while, however, we hear someone reply, 'I'm going to church.'" . Fine. Wraps. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1970.

Kampen, Netherlands: J. H. Kok N.V., 1965. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A softcover measuring 6-1/8" by 9-1/2" and containing 66 pages. Text is in English. The Contents are: IN MEMORIAM (which begins, "As this book, which the author had shortly before revised, was going to press, the sad news reached South Africa that Prof. Duyvene De Wit had passed away suddenly on July 25th 1965 whilst holidaying at San Christophoro in Italy"); Introductory: The transcendental critique in the field of biology by Professor J.P.A. Mekkes; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the founder of a new pseudo-Christian evolutionary mysticism by J.J. Duyvene De Wit, Ph.D.; Reflections on the architecture of the organic world and the origin of man by J.J. Duyvene De Wit, Ph.D. Condition: former owner's name in pen to first inside page; a few interior passages underlined in pen; in lightly worn covers..

Washington, D.C.: General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Temperance Department. Offered is a first edition, first printing of "TEMPERANCE: A Bible Doctrine" written by Ernest H. J. Steed and published by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Temperance Department out of Washington, D.C. No date indicated, although circa 1970s. A stapled pamphlet measuring 4" by 9" and containing 8 pages including front and rear covers. The topics are: Biblical Self-Control; Set Apart for a Holy Use; A Purpose to Wilderness Wandering; Bible Texts and Self-control; Warnings Against Intemperance and the Counterfeits for Temperance; Mingling of Good and Evil; An Appeal for Total Dependence on God; The Law of Temperance for Christians; and The Basis for Organization. . Near Fine. Stapled Wraps. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1970.

New York, NY: New York State Waterways Association, Inc.. Offered is the September-October 1945 issue of "New York Waterways: Official Organ of the New York State Waterways Association, Inc." (Vol. 1 No. 6) published out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 11-1/2" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. With a front cover photograph of Lock 17 - New York State Canal System, contents include: President [J. Frank] Belford Writes President [Harry] Truman: New York State Waterways Association Head Outlines Position of Association on St. Lawrence Seaway Proposal (with text of letter, as well as reply from Dean Acheson, Under Secretary of State); near-half-page illustrated ad from Moran Towing & Transportation; [Carl] Pretshold Only Tells Half the Story (on the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project); [Vice] Admiral [Emory S.] Land Blasts the Railroads (with his photo); Part II of The Future of the New York State Canal System by C.H.… Read More

New York, NY: New York State Waterways Association, Inc.. Offered is the July-August 1945 issue of "New York Waterways: Official Organ of the New York State Waterways Association, Inc." (Vol. 1 No. 5) published out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 9" by 12-1/8" and containing 8 pages including front and rear covers. With a front cover photograph of the Mohawk River at Lock 12 - New York State Canal System, contents include: half-page ad for the Oil Transfer Corporation (with photo of a modern steel Tanker vessel); news item The [Queen] Mary Did Her Bit; half-page news item Army Engineers Hearing On Oswego Harbor Improvements; photo of "Diesel Electric Motorship 'Detroiter' eastbound on Mohawk River after leaving dock 17"; Part I of The Future of the New York State Canal System by C.H. Tregenza (with accompanying photo of "Lock 8, and a series of movable dams for flood control"); Protest Against St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project… Read More

New York, NY: New York State Waterways Association, Inc.. Offered is the March-April 1946 issue of "New York Waterways: Official Organ of the New York State Waterways Association, Inc." (Vol. 2 No. 2) published out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 9" by 12-1/8" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: inside page New York State Waterways Association Official Family (list including Committee members); lengthy transcript St. Lawrence Seaway by W.P. Hedden, Director, Port Development, The Port of New York Authority Before the Subcommittee of Senate Foreign Relations Committee on S.J. Res. 104 (with his photo; he states, in very short part, "[The Port of New York Authority] are opposed to projects which can be justified only by the most strained and unsound assumptions"); New York Port Authority Head [Howard S. Cullman] Opposes Seaway (with his photo and text of letter to the Honorable James M. Mead, U.S. Senator); Density… Read More

New York, NY: New York State Waterways Association, Inc.. Offered is the May-June 1946 issue of "New York Waterways: Official Organ of the New York State Waterways Association, Inc." (Vol. 2 No. 3) published out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 11-3/4" and containing 20 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Regional Factors in National Growth (Address of Amos E. Taylor, Director, Office of Business Economics, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., at the 50th Anniversary Convention of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 15, 1946); Great Lakes-Hudson River Waterway: A Comparative Analysis of the Freight Traffic for the Past Seventeen Years (Part I, with full-page table); Canalization of Allegheny River: Effect on the New York State Canal System by Nelson M. Fuller, Sanitary Engineer, Olean, New York. Condition: previously folded once (for mailing purposes); address label to upper edge area of front… Read More

New York, NY: New York State Waterways Association, Inc.. Offered is the November-December 1945 issue of "New York Waterways: Official Organ of the New York State Waterways Association, Inc." (Vol. 1 No. 7) published out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 11-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: lengthy Authority [Maxim M. Cohen, Manager of Marine Sales, East Chicago Dock Terminal Co.] States Waterways Case [text of letter to the Hon. Clarence F. Lea, Chairman, Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce, U.S. Congress] ("Let's look at the spectre of what railroads have done under the guise of meeting 'water-competition'"); news item Rail Men Oppose [St. Lawrence] Seaway [Power] Project (which would call for a "channeled connection between the Great Lakes and the upper reaches of the St. Lawrence River"); The Capacity of the New York State Barge Canal by John J. Bryan, Canal… Read More

New York, NY: New York State Waterways Association, Inc.. Offered is the September-October 1946 issue of "New York Waterways: Official Organ of the New York State Waterways Association, Inc." (Vol. 2 No. 4) published out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Northeastern Waterway (Address by J. Frank Belford, Jr., President, New York State Waterways Association, Inc., before the Panel on Inland Waterways at the Merchant Marine Conference at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Propeller Club of the United States, Waldorf-Astoria, New York, N.Y., October 16, 1946); editorial Traffic On New York State Canal System ("Canal traffic dropped about 50 per cent from 1940 to 1944 and the question is asked - WHY? During those years, traffic on the railroads skyrocketed in volume"). Condition: previously folded once (for mailing purposes); address label to upper edge area of front cover;… Read More

New York, NY: New York State Waterways Association, Inc.. Offered is the November-December 1946 issue of "New York Waterways: Official Organ of the New York State Waterways Association, Inc." (Vol. 2 No. 5) published out of New York City. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: The Nation Needs Inland Waterways Transportation by Chester C. Thompson (President, The American Waterways Operators, Inc., at Inland Waterways Panel, American Merchant Marine Conference, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City); news item Proposed All-American Ship Canal from Great Lakes to Port of New York; editorial National Transportation Policy. Condition: previously folded once (for mailing purposes); address label to upper edge area of front cover; staples age-rusted; light wear. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1946.

Houston, TX: J & J Publishing. Mature Adult Item: by ordering you attest to being of legal age in your state or country of residence. A left-stapled magazine containing 60 internal pages. An adult swinger classified ads magazine, packed with sexuals ads and contributed photographs. Light cover wear. . VG+. Magazine. First Edition. 1991.

Smampscott, MA: Round-Trip Trains, 2001. Book. Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A left-stapled poetry zine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 64 pages including front and rear covers. Featuring poetry and photographs ("made playing with copy machines or pictures taken during a cross-country road trip - some of these pictures may have been taken by Dan or Lin") by Jkid, poems include personal ad; phobias of the fearless; eric avery; dopey; shortly after columbine; making something out of nothing; call it savage society; summer city streets; i think i might be the evil twin; the state of being burlap; gimmee tom's boy; working on saturday morning after; drink whiskey and watch fight club; i miss sex; the limits of analysis; many others..

New York: Carl Fischer, Inc.. Contains 10 pages including front and rear covers with 7 pages of music. Closed tear along upper, outer narrow fold; light scuffing along outer narrow fold. A second copy, lacking covers but containing all music, will also be included. . Very Good. Sheet Music. First Edition This Publisher. 1927.

Los Angeles, CA: J.M. Moskowitz, 1927. Book. Fine. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Offered is an original letter dated January 11, 1927 written and signed by J. M. Moskowitz, Chairman of the Los Angeles Grand Opera Choral Society to Mr. Vitti (who I could not identify in my research) of the San Carlo Grand Opera Company. Measuring 8-3/16" by 9" it reads in full: "Los Angeles, Cal. - Jan. 11, 1927 - Mr. Vitti - c/o San Carlo Grand Opera Company - Dear Sir: I understand that during your stay in Los Angeles you will complete the process of organizing into a union chorus the Los Angeles Grand Opera Choral Society and also present the charter. Please inform me as to the evening most convenient for you to be with us so that everything as far as we know will be prepared. Cordially Yours, J.M. Moskowitz Chairman, L.A. Grand Opera Choral Society - [street number] Arlington Ave. Los Angeles, Cal." Lacks mailing envelope; previously… Read More

Saturday Review, Inc.. A magazine printed on glossy paper and containing 56 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: article The Freedom to Hope by William Ernest Hocking; article The Heritage of Edith Hamilton: 1867-1963 by John Mason Brown; article The Ugly American in Dark Africa by William D. Patterson; Delacroix: Prophet in Paint by Katharine Kuh; numerous book reviews. Condition: inside pages lightly age-toned; covers lightly soiled; two short closed tears along outer narrow spine fold; small mailing label of former owner to lower right corner of front cover. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1963.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Premier Printing Ltd.. Offered is the first English translation of "The Epistle to the Galatians: 7 Outlines" written by the Rev. M. J. C. Blok and published in 1977 by Premier Printing Ltd. out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A stapled pamphlet measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Text is in English. Originally published in the Netherlands, the study was translated for the Inter-League Publication Board of the study societies of The Canadian Reformed Churches by Mrs. F. De Vries and edited by Mrs. J.A. Lindhout. With a Foreword by the Editor, the Contents are: Introduction; Outline I ("Paul not a true Apostle?"); Outline II ("A true Apostle and the true Gospel"); Outline III ("The faithful Galatians also children of Abraham!"); Outline IV ("God's will and testament to Abraham and his offspring"); Outline V ("The Glory of the New Covenant"); Outline VI… Read More

Brooklyn, NY: Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society. A left stapled magazine measuring 9-1/8" by 11-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. Staples rusted; small yellow mailing label to front cover ("MRS ELWIN M SMITH RFD 4 ROME N Y"); bend to lower edge area of issue; small creases and short closed tears to lower right corner of pages (to margins only); covers lightly age-browned along edge areas; light, minor edge and corner wear in places. Front cover illustration bright, binding tight, and internal pages clean. . Very Good. Magazine. First Edition. 1941.

Brooklyn, NY: Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society. Offered is the August 1, 1938 issue of "The Watchtower And Herald of Christ's Presence" (Vol. LIX No. 15) published by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society (J.F. Rutherford, President) out of Brooklyn, New York. A left stapled magazine measuring 8" by 11" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The articles are: His War (Part 3); Faithlessness; Seals (on the seven seals). Staples age-rusted; small yellow mailing label to front cover; light periodic age spotting to covers. Cover illustration is clear, binding tight, and internal pages clean. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1938.

Brooklyn, NY: Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society. A left stapled magazine measuring 9-1/8" by 11-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. Staples rusted; small yellow mailing label to front cover ("MRS ELWIN M SMITH RFD 4 ROME N Y"); covers show very light browning to edge areas; a few tiny chips to lower right edge of front cover; light, minor edge and corner wear in places. Front cover illustration bright, binding tight, and internal pages clean. . VG+. Magazine. First Edition. 1941.